Australian Deserts: Ecology and Landscapes
by Morton, Steve, Gillam, Mike, Thornley, Brenda
by Morton, Steve, Gillam, Mike, Thornley, Brenda
by Morton, Steve, Gillam, Mike, Thornley, Brenda
by Morton, Steve, Gillam, Mike, Thornley, Brenda
by Morton, Steve, Gillam, Mike, Thornley, Brenda
Describes the ecology of Australian deserts and how desert-dwelling plants and animals succeed.
by Morton, Steve, Gillam, Mike, CSIRO Publishing
"Australian Deserts: Ecology and Landscapes" is about the vast sweep of the Outback, a land of expanses making up three-quarters of the continent - the heart of Australia. Steve Morton brings his extensive first-hand knowledge and experience of arid Australia to this book, expla…
by Project Muse, Mandaville, James P.
fromBook collections on Project MUSE
This book offers a study of plant uses among the Najdi Arabic-speaking tribal peoples of eastern Saudi Arabia. It also makes a major contribution to the larger project of ethnobotany by describing aspects of a nomadic peoples' conceptual relationships with the plants of their h…
Accompanying CD-ROM contains ... "more than 340 color images of the people, the terrain, and nearly all of the plants mentioned in the text, as well as an audio file of a traditional Bedouin song and its translation and analysis."--Jacket.